Rush: First American Broadcast 1974

There’s a “new” Rush CD available: RUSH – ABC 1974. Mine came this week.

It was recorded at the Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, Ohio in 1974 just a few weeks after Neil Peart joined them. It marks the point where WMMS FM broadcast the whole show, and the rest – as they say – is history.

There are two previously unreleased Rush tracks – Fancy Dancer and Garden Road – tracks from their first album and the then-unreleased Fly By Night, and a cover of Bad Boy (by Larry Williams).

There are also three bonus Fly By Night tracks from a 1975 set, also broadcast by WMMS.

The CD comes in a traditional plastic jewel case with a cardboard sleeve, and includes a foldout CD insert with a few details about the gig.

The full track list is as follows:

1. Finding My Way
2. The Best I Can
3. Need Some Love
4. In The End
5. Fancy Dancer
6. In The Mood
7. Bad Boy
8. Here Again
9. Working Man
10. Drum Solo
11. What Youre Doing
12. Garden Road
13. Anthem (from the 2nd broadcast)
14. Beneath, Between & Behind (from the 2nd broadcast)
15. Fly By Night (from the 2nd broadcast)

Most Rush fans will have heard the stuff before, but this is a collectors’ item which marks the first legal/official release of the material.